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Effects Of Teaching Mathematics To Learning Style Perceptual Preference On Academic Achievement Of Seventh-Grade Middle School Students, Rosemary Colarulli

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Teaching methods that are effective with some students, fail with other students, because students perceive and process information differently. The personal preference by which one perceives and processes new material is called one's learning style. Using the Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Inventory assessment instrument, the learning style perceptual preference of 262 seventh grade students from a large, urban, middle school in southeast Florida were identified. This research investigated the effects of teaching mathematics to the preferred perceptual preference of these students in terms of academic achievement. Four teachers were trained in the Dunn and Dunn learning style teaching model …

Estimation Of Information: Theoretics-Based Delay Bounds Of Mpeg Traffic Over Atm Networks, Shuba. Jagannathan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

This thesis addresses a method to deduce the statistical bounds associated with the cell-transfer delay variations (CDVs) encountered by the cells of MPEG traffic, transmitted in the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. This study focuses on: (1) Estimating CDV arising from multiplexing/switching for both constant bit rate (CBR) and variable bit rate (VBR) traffics via priority allocation based simulations. (2) Developing an information-theoretics based technique to get an insight of the combined BER-induced and multiplexing/switching-induced CDVs in ATM networks. Algorithms pertinent to CDV statistics are derived and the lower and upper bounds of the statistics are obtained via simulations in …

Exercise In Futility: The Czech Republic's Attempts To Join The European Union, Deborah Lynn Campbell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Czechoslovakia, and later the Czech Republic, has made its desire to join the European Union (EU) clear since the establishment of its constitution in 1990. Experts agree the country's success at creating a working democratic government and free market economy will make it eligible for EU membership by 2002. However, the European Union will not be capable of successfully expanding at that time. The EU must restructure its political and voting systems, as well as the Common Agricultural Policy, to allow for more participating members. While officials of the European Union agree these changes are necessary, very little has been …

Variances In Meta-Analysis, Katherine L B Humphreys

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Meta-analysis is a statistical method of combining many individual analyses. This thesis reviews the need for meta-analysis; the many statistical consideration facing the meta-analyst; and some of Hedges' results concerning the combined estimate of effect size with unequal weights from his 1981 and 1982 papers. Unequal weights used to combine estimates of effect size in meta-analysis are derived using the variances given by the large sample, normal approximation of the distribution of Hedges' unbiased estimates of effect sizes. These variances depend on the effect size and the sample sizes of both experimental and control groups. This creates circular definitions and …

Southern Character, Confederate Nationalism, And The Interpretation Of State Constitutions: A Case Study In Constitutional Argument, James A. Gardner

Journal Articles

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Section 98 And The Specialized Practice Of Civil Rights Law, James A. Gardner

Journal Articles

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On Teaching Legal Ethics With Stories About Clients, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The comparison I have in mind is between what goes on at Notre Dame and what goes on in one of Professor James Boyd White's law and literature classes at the University of Michigan. Both classes use provocation. White provokes his students with an array of assigned readings, all of them about people, not all of them about law, ranging from Homer and Plato to Fowler on the split infinitive and the autobiography of Dick Gregory. We provoke our students with a parade of accounts from our members, accounts of people they think they can help.

White's enterprise is, I …

The Christian Jurisprudence Of Robert E. Rodes Jr., Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

When I had the chance to leave law practice and become a fulltime law teacher, I turned, in the time-honored fashion, for advice from my law teachers. The most memorable and persistent of these—the most cheerful, too, and therefore the most hopeful—was Robert E. Rodes, Jr., then a young (36), transplanted New Yorker, Harvard law graduate, and Boston lawyer. He had already come to flourish, in the Aristotelian sense, in the Midwest—in a Catholic university known more for its football players than for its lawyers.

Rodes told me he had come to teaching and to Notre Dame because he wanted …

Public Reason, Abortion, And Cloning, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

Every society, liberal or illiberal, takes a public stand on the question whether abortion is or is not a form of criminal activity. If that question were left to private judgment, people who judge it homicide would be entitled to use force to prevent their fellow citizens engaging in it.

The need for the law and public policy to take a stand has become more and more obvious for two reasons. The first has to do with the standard purpose of abortion, as that term is commonly used: to end the life of a fetus/unborn child. As Jeffrey Reiman argues …

Reconstituting Haudenosaunee Law, Sovereignty, And Governance, Errol E. Meidinger

Journal Articles

This article introduces a symposium issue on "Law, Sovereignty, and Tribal Governance: The Iroquois Confederacy" that grew out of a conference at the University at Buffalo Law School in 1998. The symposium was heavily attended and debated by the indigenous peoples of the region. The article argues that core lessons of the conference included the requirement to understand and implement sovereignty as tool of cultural survival, particularly in its insistence on a land base; that sovereignty has been adopted as a central concept by Indian peoples both because it provides a necessary social bulwark and because it facilitates a discursive …

Civil Rights And Self-Concept: Life Stories Of Law, Disability, And Employment, David M. Engel, Frank W. Munger

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Buying Time For Survivors Of Domestic Violence: A Proposal For Implementing An Exception To Welfare Time Limits, Jennifer Mason Mcaward

Journal Articles

With the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Personal Responsibility Act), states have unprecedented discretion in fashioning their social welfare programs.

This Note examines the Personal Responsibility Act, focusing specifically on the statutory language and history of the sixty-month time limit on receipt of benefits and the two optional exceptions states may enact. This examination reveals that the Act contemplates that states have both the power and the support of Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services to implement exceptions for the benefit of survivors of domestic violence.

Given that states may …

Catholic Judges In Capital Cases, Amy Coney Barrett, John H. Garvey

Journal Articles

The Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty places Catholic judges in a moral and legal bind. While these judges are obliged by oath, professional commitment, and the demands of citizenship to enforce the death penalty, they are also obliged to adhere to their church's teaching on moral matters. Although the legal system has a solution for this dilemma by allowing the recusal of judges whose convictions keep them from doing their job, Catholic judges will want to sit whenever possible without acting immorally. However, litigants and the general public are entitled to impartial justice, which may be something a …

The Bankruptcy Puzzle, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley

Journal Articles

This article offers new evidence on the determinants of U.S. consumer bankruptcy filing rates, which tripled from 1984 to 1991. The run-up in filing rates does not appear to be a consequence of legal changes since the increase coincided with Bankruptcy Code amendments designed to reduce filing rates by rejecting opportunistic petitions. The run-up also coincided with a major economic boom and crested with the 1991 recession. However, much of the variation in district filing rates is attributable to differences in social variables, and we suggest that changes in social norms might account for the increased bankruptcy filings. This article …

Health Locus Of Control And Health Behaviors Of Single Mothers Living In Poverty In An Urban North Dakota Community, Jodi Benson

Theses and Dissertations

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Communication Styles And Stages Of A Mentoring Relationship : A Comparison Of Genders, Christi K. Braun

Theses and Dissertations

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Economic Effects Of The 1997 Flood On The Red River Valley, Grant Carlson

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effect Of Auditory Feedback On The Perceived Communicative Competence Of An Adult Augmentative And Alternative Communication User, M Paula Barbosa

Theses and Dissertations

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The New York Times Coverage Of The United Nations Fourth World Conference On Women, Carla Frederica Almeida Santos

Theses and Dissertations

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North Dakota Speech-Language Pathologists And Their Role In Augmentative And Alternative Communication Services, Jennifer L. Swanson

Theses and Dissertations

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Variations In Health Promotion Practices Among Adult Hutterites, Ladean Morford

Theses and Dissertations

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Mccarthyism And The Cooperative Ideology Of The North Dakota Farmers Union, Christopher L. Carlson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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A Collection Of Book Reviews And Essays, Samuel E. Sisneros

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

Contains selected papers written by Samuel Sisneros, Masters Degree program in Borderlands History, University of Texas at El Paso. See cover page for index of papers.

Tribal/State Health Policymaking In The Northwest States Of Oregon, Washington And Idaho: Building For Policymaking., Unknown

Native Health Database Full Text

The tribes of Idaho, Oregon and Washington formed the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB or Board), an intergovernmental health policymaking organization. The purpose of the Board is to assist member tribes to improve their health status and quality of life The Board assists tribes in each of its three states to proactively track tribal/state health policy issues by: 1) providing a forum for unified tribal positions on health issues; 2) building effective partnerships between Northwest tribes and the IHS; 3) developing and providing support for health promotion/disease prevention programs, and 4) developing epidemiology, research, information systems, and data …

Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups-African Americans, American Indians And Alaska Natives, Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders, And Hispanics: A Report Of The Surgeon General, Department Of Health And Human Services, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, National Center For Chronic Disease Preventionand Health Promotion, Office On Smoking And Health, Nl. Benowitz, A. Blum, Rl. Braithwaite, Fg. Castro

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This Surgeon General's report on tobacco use summarizes current information on risk factors and patterns related to tobacco use among members of four major racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States: African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. In addition, this report presents information on national and regional efforts to curtail consumption of tobacco products among members of these four groups.This report was produced with the assistance of experts in the behavioral, epidemiological, medical, and public health fields. Initial background papers were produced by more than 25 scientists who were selected …

Billings Area Indian Health Service Elderly Wellness, Indian Health Service, Billings Area.

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Purpose The purpose of this report was to determine if providing of health care and health promotion services specially designed for the elderly would increase their use of health care services and ultimately impact on their health status. Specific objectives included: 1) obtain an accurate data base of the current health care problems in the elderly Indian population; 2) obtain an accurate description of health care utilization by the elderly Indian population; 3) determine if the provision of health care and health promotion services specially designed for the elderly would increase their use of health care services; and 4) determine …

Exploring The Future Of Indian Health Information Systems, Indian Health Service, Office Of Public Health, L. Nolan, T. D'Angelo, J. Neconie

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The Data Policy Roundtable - The Future of Indian Health Information Systems was convened to explore options and develop strategies for future Indian Health Service/Tribal/Urban (I/T/U) program information systems. The concerns and needs of both tribes who chose to contract/compact and those who did not were considered.The focus was on developing strategies to create a new Indian health information system, one that was not an Indian Health Service system but rather a system designed and supported by tribal and urban health care delivery organizations and the Indian Health Service.The participants represented a broad range of concerns and needs. They identified …

Assessment Of The Health Care Needs Of The Urban Indian Population In The State Of Arizona., Indian Health Service, Rockville, Md, Indian Health Service, Staff Office Of Planning, Evaluation And Research, Division Of Program Statistics

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The Indian Health Service (IHS) publication, ""Regional Differences in Indian Health,"" attempts to fulfill the basic statistical information requirements of parties interested in the IHS, and its relationship with the American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. This publication provides regional information on the health status of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) based on data from 12 IHS regional administrative units called Area Offices. The publication contains tables and charts describing the Indian Health Service program and the health status of AI/ANs residing in the IHS service area. The IHS service area consists of counties on and near federal …

Successful Strategies For Increasing Direct Health Care Quality, Accessibility And Economy For American Indians And Alaska Natives, Indian Health Service, Rockville, Md.

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Purpose The focus of the Roundtable Conference was the reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), Public Law 94-437. The purpose of this Roundtable Conference was to stimulate discussion and recommendations regarding the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA) that would result in a base of information from which the Indian Health Service (IHS) will begin to plan a tribal consultation process. The expiration of the IHCIA in fiscal year 2000 is of great concern to the participants of this roundtable discussion. Methods This Roundtable brought together approximately 25 participants from the field of Indian health care delivery …

Cervical Cancer Screening Among Low-Income Women: Results Of A National Screening Program, 1991-1995., Hw Lawson, Nc. Lee, Sf. Thames, R. Henson, Ds. Miller

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the results of cervical cytology screening in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and to compare the findings with results from other screening programs. METHODS: We analyzed data on 312,858 women aged 18 years and older who received one or more Papanicolaou smears, and follow-up if indicated, from October 1991 through June 1995 at screening sites across the United States providing comprehensive National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program services. RESULTS: Of the women screened, more than half were 40 years or older; slightly less than half (44%) were of racial and ethnic …